1848+: Last and First Men

Charles Esdaile The Bear Against The Cockrel Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 Dominic Lieven (Allen Lane/The Penguin Press 617pp £30) Readers familiar with Tolstoy’s War and Peace will possibly remember a dramatic incident that occurs in the wake of the French invasion of Russia. Alone at her estate of Bleak [...]

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Engels bio: Marx’s General

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Open Veins of Latin America

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On Lewontin review in NYRB

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Thoroughly Modern Marx By Leo Panitch May/June 2009 Lights. Camera. Action. Das Kapital. Now. The economic crisis has spawned a resurgence of interest in Karl Marx. Worldwide sales of Das Kapital have shot up (one lone German publisher sold thousands of copies in 2008, compared with 100 the year before), a measure of a crisis [...]

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The leftist failure to challenge Darwinian ideology, an Amazon review of MR’s book on ID: Critique of Intelligent Design

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Amazon review of Kant’s Politics, on the issue of ‘Freedom’s Causality

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